The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-27
MR.. AND MRS. CLEVELAND.
Their Habits, Exercises, Appetites
and Tastes.

Ladies who have called at the White
House during the past week, says g
Washington dispatch to the Memphis
appeal, have remarked the growing
corpuiency of the President and Mrs
Cleveland. They say that each has
tattened to the extent of at least twenty
i've pounds since Sept. L, and that the
President has become really stout
When Mrs. Cleveland was married she
| weighed little less than 100 pounds.
and, owing to her height, did not an
pear to be that heavy. There are those
OF her friends who have seen her during
the past week who say that she will tilt
the beam at 10; put these figures
| are little nigh. She will not weigh
| $50, yet she is very near that
mark. The outdoor exercise, especially
| the daily drives she takes. has done
most OF it. Mrs. Cleveland seIdsm
drinks wine or any other slmUlant.
she only wants brisk walk to work az
her appetite for breakfast or lunch. and
IL she cannot 60 outdoors she rambles
about the house. A servant says she
often runs up and down stairs Two steps
at time, and can swing her arms be
hlnd her back like those of q windmill
and that she is the most agile woman of !
her size in the city. Mrs. Cleveland il |
fully as tail as her husband. and |
although she has developed into 81 |
woman of serious thought, she can en-
JOY frolio as much rs anyone. and
when she attends the theatre. which is
often, she has no scrupleS about laugh
ing heartily when size Is amused or sees
anything to laugh at. She is naturally
OF happy dISposltion, and eats and
sleeps like one who is determined not i
to let the things Of life worry her,
The president grows corpulent from
natural causes. He would grow fat on
bread and water, yet he does not live
On such transparent diet. He can eat
as large Oeefsteak as q rail splitter.
drink his three cups CT coff, 9 for break.
asst, With pancakes and rolls and syrups
and the setcsteras which go to make III
good breakfast. He does not take =
lslt as much exercise as Mrs, Cleveland,
nd that he does undergo. is of an IN
rely different character. He never {
lufries, He walks slowly and with de
Iteration. Sometimes he takes two
moves to each step in going up stairs.
Y he2 be and his wife retGrn from
rive, she invariably helps herself
rom the carriage and runs ahead into !
1S ticOSc' Il ~ 10 OuG ~ O0k view she !
!tchas her horse. IT it is at the White
louise she gees up stairs on the run,
robably two stairs at the leap, AID the 1
Sercise she gets is healthful,
lille that be has is not
cry effective. A good many
:oIies have bsen printed about the
residents diet, Some Of them have
rains OF Truth, but most Of them lave
zen exagg rated. He is o not cor. :
landlzer, but healthfut eater. He is :
big man, possessed OF splendid dig s.
We organs, and he satisfies his desire g
Tar as he can without gormandizing.
LIS complexion 1t this time, the bright
ess OF his eyes, aud his growth show
lat his liver, blood and stomach are in
pod order which could not be II he r
verloaded his stomach every day. The
resident likes his bottle of ale or g ~
liH of something stronger with his
inch or dinner, ard is especially fond
botils 81 beer before retiring at
lght. he says IL assists digestion and :.
reduces ease 81 he nerves. In any
rent, The President and Mrs Cleveland
e growing SO stout that it can be
JserVed even IS they drive through
IL streets. and they appear to be ss -
Apply as clans at high tide.